| Exponare is an out-of-the-box solution developed
on MapInfo’s Enterprise platform. It combines the power
of MapInfo’s proven location based technology with the
flexibility of the Microsoft® .NET framework and Web Services. CDR
Group - MapInfo Exponare
MapInfo® Exponare™ is designed to enable users to
connect to the many sources of corporate data, to discover
the full extent of their information resource and to deliver
the high quality of service demanded by today’s citizens
and customers.
Exponare is an integrated suite of applications, with a strong
emphasis on integration, centralised management and ease of
use. Exponare provides the portal to an organisation’s
corporate data, both spatial and non-spatial, allowing users
to leverage their corporate information
resource as never before – and to do it with a minimum
of down time involved in implementation.
The Exponare product suite consists of a number of modules
designed to work seamlessly with each other and act as an
integrated suite. Sharing a common code base, each module
has a consistent look and feel and is set up with a common
configuration tool. The first two modules of the Exponare
suite are Enquiry and Public. |
| Government
- How can I make services more accessible to my citizens?
- How can I better manage the assets of my county/borough/district?
- How can I make my agency’s work more accessible
and visible to the public?
- How can I make it easier for citizens to find out where
to go for different services?
- How can I share information within my own organisation
and other agencies and departments?
- Where are critical power or gas lines/bridges/landmarks
etc?
- Where are the closest hospitals, schools, fire stations,
etc?
Telecommunications
- How can I prequalify customers for different levels of
service?
- How can I tell if a customer qualifies for high-speed
internet access in my network?
- How can I show my customers over the internet whether
they are in a broadband area?
- Where should I build out my network infrastructure?
- Where can I target my efforts to generate more subscribers?
Financial services
- Where should I expand my ATM or branch network to?
- Where are my most profitable branches/services?
- Where am I vulnerable to competition?
- Where are my most profitable customers and what types
of products are they purchasing?
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Insurance
- How can I determine potential risks around a
location/property/policy?
- How can I pinpoint a policy on the map?
- How can I determine if a location (property) is subject
to flood/hurricane/tornadoes/wind or earthquake?
- How can my customers find the closest agent or authorised
repair facility?
- How can my customers find the closest dentist/doctor?
Retail
- Where are my best customers?
- Are my best customers within 3 miles of a particular type
of store?
- How can I show my customers online where my store locations
are?
- How do I enable my customers to find a store that sells
a certain product?
- Who are my best sales people?
- What is my best sales area for a particular new product?
- Where are my customers who have purchased a specific product
in the last year?
- Which areas are my sales team working in
this week?
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Ease of use
Exponare has been specifically designed to be user friendly
and intuitive with modules catering for a wide range of users
from technical specialists to the general public. Standard
Windows development methodologies have been employed to incorporate
familiar user interface components such as drag and drop,
dropdown lists, checkboxes and navigation trees.
Configurable
The configuration tool provides administrators with
complete control over the user interface, functionality, data
sets, queries and print templates. Configuration is managed
to group or individual user level and controlled by password
login access.
Strong data integration
Exponare Enquiry includes comprehensive data binding capabilities,
allowing users to query data stored in MapInfo tables, non-spatial
databases (such as Microsoft Access and SQL Server), and spatial
databases (such as Oracle Spatial and SpatialWare for SQL
Server).
Interoperability
The first level of integration Exponare provides with other
applications and databases is via data binding, which allows
organisations to access corporate data. A second level of
integration can be achieved at the application level by linking
Exponare clients to third party applications. Links to third
party applications can be created through custom development
within the Exponare architecture. This
combination of data level and application level integration
makes Exponare the key to full utilisation of an organisation’s
information resource. |
Central management
The Enquiry and Public modules are managed from a central
server so there is no need to visit individual work stations
to install or upgrade the software. This drastically reduces
time, effort and therefore the cost of deploying the product.
Web services
Enquiry and Public are web service clients that distribute
the functionality of the Exponare Server. The power of web
services is that virtually any application on the network
can act as an Exponare client and exploit the desired server
based functions. This web services approach reduces duplication
of effort by making truly distributed use of the spatial functions
and configuration ability of the Exponare suite.
Out-of-the-box
All Exponare modules provide an out-of-the-box installation,
which means no code development is required to implement the
application, thereby ensuring quicker implementation timeframes
and a faster return on investment.
Standards based
Consistent with MapInfo’s strong conformance to standards,
Exponare also adheres to IT industry and geospatial standards
including SOAP, WSDL and .NET to ensure interoperability with
other systems. |
| Enquiry provides internal access to corporate
information and allows users to perform queries, generate
printed maps, reports and mail merges, and has a strong emphasis
on integration with external applications.
- Configurable user interface and functionality
- Data binding: multiple objects to multiple databases
- Queries
- Red-lining
- Combined legend & layer control
- Overview map
- Automated Mail Merge: Word & HTML
- Application Link Out
- Named views
- Template printing
- Thematics
- Favourites
- Optional user login with password
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Public provides easy-to-use
browser based access for the
non-technical user.
- Browser Based Public Access
- Fast & Easy to use
- Integration into existing web sites
- Customisable user interface (HTML)
- Standard mapping tools: zoom, pan, selection etc
- Queries
- Named views
- Data binding: multiple objects to multiple databases
- Template printing
- Thematics
- Combined legend & layer control
- Overview map
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